Title

Ethical Decision Making: A Review Of The Empirical Literature

Abstract

The authors review the empirical literature in order to assess which variables are postulated as influencing ethical beliefs and decision making. The variables are divided into those unique to the individual decision maker and those considered situational in nature. Variables related to an individual decision maker examined in this review are nationality, religion, sex, age, education, employment, and personality. Situation specific variables examined in this review are referent groups, rewards and sanctions, codes of conduct, type of ethical conflict, organization effects, industry, and business competitiveness. The review identifies the variables that have been empirically tested in an effort to uncover what is known and what we need to know about the variables that are hypothesized as determinants of ethical decision behavior.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publication Title

Citation Classics from The Journal of Business Ethics: Celebrating the First Thirty Years of Publication

Number of Pages

19-44

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4126-3_2

Socpus ID

85013062721 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85013062721

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